Psychosocial and educational outcomes of weight faltering in infancy in ALSPAC.

ABSTRACT: To investigate whether infants with weight faltering have impaired psychosocial and educational outcomes in later childhood. Follow-up of infants with weight faltering in a large UK cohort study. The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). 11 534 term infants from ALSPAC with complete weight records. Weight gain (conditional on initial weight) was calculated for three periods: from birth to 8 weeks, 8 weeks to 9 months, and birth to 9 months. Cases of weight faltering were defined as those infants with a conditional weight gain below the 5th centile, and these were compared with the rest of the cohort as the control group. Between 6 and 11 years, social, emotional and behavioural development was measured by direct assessment of the children and parental and teacher report

SUBMITTER: Holme AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3703578 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature